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slump

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Verb

  1. To collapse heavily or helplessly.
  2. To decline or fall off in activity or performance.
  3. To slouch or droop.
  4. To lump; to throw together messily.
  5. To fall or sink suddenly through or in, when walking on a surface, as on thawing snow or ice, a bog, etc.
  6. To cause to collapse; to hit hard; to render unconscious; to kill.

Noun

  1. A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period.
  2. A heavy or helpless collapse; a slouching or drooping posture; a period of poor activity or performance, especially an extended period: A period when a person goes without the expected amount of sex or dating.
  3. A measure of the fluidity of freshly mixed concrete, based on how much the concrete formed in a standard slump cone sags when the cone is removed.
  4. A form of mass wasting in which a coherent mass of loosely consolidated materials or a rock layer moves a short distance down a slope.
  5. A crater or depression (an area where the ground slumps) which forms as a result of such wasting. (A large crater is colloquially called a megaslump.)
  6. A boggy place.
  7. The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place.
  8. The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
  9. A cobbler-like dessert cooked on a stove.

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